I thought this story contained more than a little irony, or perhaps egregious doublethink?

“My mom always told me there wasn’t a Santa,” Bieber said in a new interview…“This was her logic: She thought if I grew up knowing about Santa then finding out he wasn’t real, that it would be like she was lying to me. And then when she told me about God, I maybe wouldn’t believe her,” he explained. “So she just wanted to be straight-up and honest with me all the time.”

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I thought this story contained more than a little irony, or perhaps egregious doublethink?

“My mom always told me there wasn’t a Santa,” Bieber said in a new interview…“This was her logic: She thought if I grew up knowing about Santa then finding out he wasn’t real, that it would be like she was lying to me. And then when she told me about God, I maybe wouldn’t believe her,” he explained. “So she just wanted to be straight-up and honest with me all the time.”

Irony, yes, but I agree with the mom’s underlying logic. (She wanted him to wind up believing in God, and he, apparently does.)

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As a fabrication of our own consciousness, our assignations of meaning are no less “real”, but since humans and the fabrications of our consciousness are routinely fraught with error, it makes sense, to me, to, sometimes, question such fabrications.